I Came Home From Work and Found My Baby in a Condition I Will Never Forget – The Archivist

was not commensurate with what my father had said while he held my throat closed and my child was drowning. But it was the record. It existed. It would always have existed, and the people who had spent thirty years counting on the absence of a record now had one.

Something unlocked in my chest when the gavel came down. I sat in that courtroom and felt continue reading …